Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 10:09:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu> To: Jeffrey Ehrenkrantz <jehren@jehrenkrantz.whyy.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with big tar ball please! Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960814100722.5633A-100000@fubar.cs.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19960814145740.42f7fd9e@199.234.236.254>
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On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Jeffrey Ehrenkrantz wrote: > > I have used the above address and the following steps to get a tarball > of the entire packages-2.1.5 but it fails What am I doing wrong? > > ftp> open ftp.FreeBSD.ORG > cd .............to be in > packages-2.1.5 > > then > ftp>Binary > > ftp>get All.tar.Z > > the response is > get: Invalid filename format Try 'get All.tar.gz'. Why don't you just download the ports collection so that you only download what you need? - Justin J. Ashworth -- CS Student - Montana State University --- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU -- ashworth@cs.montana.edu - http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth
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